General cooking tips

Track down specials and buy in bulk. Buying in bulk means less trips, and can be a good way of reducing your food miles.


Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.


Weight loss info

The South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet is a diet system invented by Dr. arthur agatston, a cardiologist from miami, usa, which stresses that one should eat "good carbohydrates" instead of "bad carbohydrates" and "good fats" instead of "bad fats"
Doctor agatston invented his system as an aid to patients with heart conditions, based on his analysis of scientific studies completed on other dietary studies.
"good" foods include, lean cuts of beef, turkey bacon, fish, feta cheese, pistachios, lowfat milk and certain vegetables, such as kidney beans, broccoli and spinach.













Paprika Chicken Recipe
Paprika Chicken Category Slow Cooker Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

1 4 lb chicken -- cut up (4 to 5)

1 cup Canned tomatoes

1 Green pepper -- chopped

1 small Onion -- sliced

2 tablespoons Paprika

1 Clove garlic -- minced

1 teaspoon Salt

1/4 teaspoon Pepper

1/4 teaspoon Oregano

1/4 cup All-purpose flour

1 cup Sour cream

Put 1 1/2 cups water and all ingredients except flour and sour cream into crockpot. Stir to blend. Cover pot and cook on LOW for 9 to 10 hours until chicken is tender. Remove chicken pieces from cooker. Skim off fat. Turn control to HIGH. Blend flour with 1/4 cup cooled juices fromm crockpot. Mix into liquid in cooker. Stir until thickened. Blend in sour cream. Return chicken to pot. Heat through, but do not boil. Serve with noodles.

 
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